PHILOSOPHERS'STONE.PART 17

In the art of speaking,he chose not to lecture,but to discuss first by interrogation and playing the dumber ignorant to enjoin people to use their common sense.This method was called'Socratic Irony!' It enabled him to expose fragile human things and wasnt even ashamed to do that in the city squares.In 399 B.C.,he was accused of corrupting the youths by introducing new gods that debased their belief and legal acceptance of the accepted gods.A slender majority of above 500 people,found him guilty and put him to death.The truth is that why did he have to die? Because he valued truth more than conscience and would rather have die than to disober the laws of Athens.His friends could certainly have saved his life,but declined.He was sure that he knew nothing and he clearly belong to the school of rationalists.He was concerned finding universally valid definition to what was right and wrong and no one could be happy,if they acted against their better judgement. By turning to Plato,we shall learn trulymore about him.